Leicestershire were on course for victory after forcing Glamorgan to follow-on on the second day of their CricInfo Championship Division One match at Grace Road.Replying to Leicestershire’s first innings of 372 all out Glamorgan were tamely dismissed for just 146, leaving the visitors needing 227 second time around to make Vince Wells’ side bat again.Only skipper Steve James, who carried his bat for 61, presented any real first innings resistance as Glamorgan lost their last eight wickets for 108 to all but confirm relegation to Division Two.Following-on James was one of two wickets to fall before the close, along with Matthew Maynard who registered a pair – dismissed twice in the day to James Ormond. By the end of day two Glamorgan had reached 126-2 still 100 adrift with Jimmy Maher going well on 78.James Ormond did the main damage in the first innings bagging four Glamorgan wickets in what could be his last championship match for Leicestershire.The new England cap claimed the wickets of Maher and Maynard in the space of four balls to instigate the Glamorgan collapse.Wells chipped in to claim the wickets of Adrian Dale and Robert Croft – his fifth duck on the trot – with consecutive balls after Mike Powell had surrendered tamely to Devon Malcolm.Ormond struck twice more at the start of his second spell to dismiss Mark Wallace and Andrew Davies.Neil Burns capped a good couple of day following his 111 by taking six catches in the innings to equal a Leicestershire record.The wicketkeeper resumed today on 66 with his county 274-7 but went on to score a 112-ball century with 18 fours.Leicestershire were eventually bowled out for 372 having added 98 in 75 minutes which was an impressive score considering they were 26-3 and then 93-5 either side of lunch yesterday.It took Leicestershire until just the sixth over of the morning to reach 300 and their third batting point.Ormond was the first wicket to fall bowled by Darren Thomas from a delivery that kept low and Burn’s innings – five minutes short of three hours – came to an end when he had his stumps rearranged by Andrew Davies’s first ball.Devon Malcolm spanked Thomas for a six before Carl Crowe was caught at silly mid-off.

New Zealand Cricket has dropped the best of three finals system from the national one-day competition.The system had been in place for two years and last year took all three games to decide the winner after Central Districts won the last two games, away from home, to win the title.This year, the State Shield, will be played in January.Instead of starting in the immediate post-Christmas period, the Shield will start on January 2 and the final will be played on February 2. Nine round robin matches plus the semi-final and final will be telecast live by Sky Television.Between Christmas and New Year a four-day round of games for the State Championship will be played.The first-class competition will start on November 26 and it will continue with the last round ending on March 27.That will provide much-needed playing back-up in the event of injuries occurring to front-line international players during the home series against England.The pre-season five rounds of matches between the neighbouring associations in the Max competition has been replaced by a single State Max weekend at North Harbour Stadium from Friday, November 16 to Sunday, November 18. Four of the weekend’s games will be screened by Sky Television.North Harbour Stadium is one of two new venues on the roster this year. Also making its debut appearance will be the Events Centre in Queenstown where Otago will host Wellington in the first round of the State Shield. Also returning to the domestic fold will be Smallbone Park in Rotorua.The State League for women will begin on Saturday, January 13 with the final being played on February 10.

After a week during which the Indian tour found itself bogged down in theslush at Chatsworth slightly better service should be resumed inBloemfontein on Saturday with the start of the first Castle Lager/MTNTest match against South Africa.You’d probably have to go a fair way to find anyone who doesn’t believeSouth Africa to be firm favourities as the really serious business of thetour gets under way. The emphatic nature of South Africa’s triumph in theStandard Bank Series final last Friday, the re-emergence of Nantie Haywardas a bowler of genuine pace, the form of the South African top order allpoint to the home team prevailing.India, by contrast, have had their preparations disrupted, they have yet tosettle on an opening pair and they seem very likely to attempt to play theseries with only four bowlers, two of whom will be the spinners Anil Kumbleand Harbhajan Singh.This last would represent a massive gamble, not from the point of view thatKumble and Harbhajan might not be up to it, but it would leave them terriblythin if things start to go wrong. It has been a persistent criticism ofIndia for some time now that they tend to droop in the field after tea. Ifthey’re planning to go in with only two seamers, presumably two of theexperience Javagal Srinath, the skiddy Ajit Agarkar or the left-armer AshishNehra, whoever plays are going to be out their feet at the end of the day’splay.And who will open their batting. It is understood that neither Rahul Dravid,who has the technique, nor VVS Laxman, who hasn’t but compensates with awonderful eye, wants the job. The middle order, then, will consist ofDravid, Sachin Tendulkar, Sourav Ganguly and Laxman, but they will beparticularly vulnerable at the front where the names of Connor Williams,Virender Sehwag and Sameer Dighe as possible partners for SS Das have been tossed around.Will the Indians use Williams with Das, which seems to be the intention ofthe selectors? That remains to be seen, but it would yet another gamble tothrow Williams in at the deep end against a fired-up Hayward having hardlyput bat to ball on South African soil.The root of India’s problems, however, lies in the lack of a genuineall-rounder, a point underscored by the wealth of all-round talent in theSouth African team. Without an all-rounder, India lack balance and overthree Tests this could be cruelly exposed by the home team.And yet, the tourists possess such pure talents that you would never wiselydismiss them out of hand. Tendulkar remains the finest batsmen of the moderngeneration and if Ganguly isn’t quite in the same class (after all, who is?)then the Indian captain seemed to have adjusted perfectly well to SouthAfrican conditions.The South Africans have seen enough of Kumble over the years to be aware ofwhat he is capable of, but Harbhajan is new and a bit different and rated by anumber of very good judges as a match-winner. How the South Africans copewith him should form one of the central duels of the series.Still, when all is said and done, South Africa remain a very fine cricketteam despite the efforts of the selection convener to undermine it. It is nosurprise, for instance, that Nicky Boje should have been recalled to play athis home ground. But as the team was once again handed over to a third partyto announce, we still don’t know where Claude Henderson stands in the grandscheme of things.Hayward’s current form should do much to compensate for the absence ofAllan Donald and Mfuneko Ngam and his presence will ease the pressure bothon Shaun Pollock and Jacques Kallis to provide the incisive moments.There may well be still a place in the South African middle order open for contention with Boeta Dippenaar likely to bat at five in this Test. Daryll Cullinan will play this weekend for the Highveld Strikers against Easterns, but he needs to make runs quickly if he is to be considered to play against India. And the longer this takes, the less likely will be his chances of touring Australia for a third time.And what we don’t know is what kind of pitch will be provided atGoodyear Park. Against New Zealand last year it was low and slow and despiteyielding a 300th Test wicket to Donald, it made for a slow moving and oftentedious game. South African cricket needs fast, bouncy pitches, not justbecause they would suit the home team, but also because they provide forbetter and far more entertaining cricket.And if India can help provide that, we could still have a series worthremembering.

Nestled on 22 acres of land beneath the rolling Beausejour hills inthe north of St Lucia, cricket’s newest international stadium istaking impressive shape.Tractors growl as they plough into the soil, Bobcats zig-zag aroundlike Z-vans with oversized wheels, cranes drop steel beams into placeand over 50 hard-hats bustle from one chore to the next.The turtle-backed outfield has already been graded, the square readiedand the stands are beginning to assume distinctive form.There is still a lot to be done. But Claude Guilleaume, theTrinidadian architect with the contractors, Carillon Construction, isconfident his company will have the finished product ready for handingover to the St Lucian government well before the two One-DayInternationals with India the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) hasscheduled for it in late May next year."We’re making very good progress and we’re looking at a completiondate sometime in March," he says.There needs to be a dress rehearsal prior to the internationals to putit all – the pitch, the outfield, the dressing rooms, the mediafacilities and all the rest – to the test. There is talk about hostinga match in the last round of the 2002 Busta International Series forthat purpose.All things being equal, Guilleaume has no qualms about meeting thedeadlines."There’s a little pressure, yes, but that’s okay," he says. "Atpresent, we’re actually a little ahead of schedule."As permanent secretary in the Ministry of Education, Human ResourceDevelopment, Youth and Sport, under whose portfolio the project falls,Ernest Hilaire is closely involved with all aspects of the scheme."It will comprise an international standard playing oval with all thesupporting areas for players, officials, spectators and the media," hecan boast."We’ve had close collaboration with officials of the West IndiesCricket Board (WICB) and taken their advice on key areas to ensurewe’ve got everything to their specification."Under Cover, a Trinidadian company specialising in such things, isresponsible for laying the square with soil and clay taken fromvarious parts of the island and for grassing the outfield.Estimated to cost EC$35 million (US$12.95 million) when finished, thestadium – yet to be officially named – is funded entirely by thegovernment-run St Lucia National Lotteries.It replaces Mindoo Philip Park, previously St Lucia’s solitary firstclass ground.Situated between two hills just outside of Castries, the capital, theold "Park", titled for one of St Lucia’s finest players, is in a highrainfall area. With poor drainage, it repeatedly turned regional andinternational touring team matches into frustrating misery.The micro-climate in the Beausejours area makes it one of the driestspots on the island, ideal for a game so heavily dependent on theweather.Located at the southern end of the new ground, the players’ pavilionhas been designed to have two team dressing rooms and ancillaryfacilities.There are also to be administrative offices, a central kitchen anddining hall and lounges for both members and cosseted VIPs who, evenif they have a limited knowledge of the game, will be guaranteedexcellent views of play from their third-tier seats.At the opposite end, Hilaire notes, the north grandstand will housethe media, print and broadcast, and 18 plush private boxes with roomfor up to 500.Underneath will be an entrance concourse that converts into lightedindoor nets outside of match days, catering facilities and publicconveniences.To the west, partially covered stands will accommodate 4 200individual seats. To the east, the grounds section is designed to takeup to 5 000 on the grassed banked embankment.And, most significantly, outdoor practice pitches, two natural turf,two artificial, are on the plans to the back of the players pavilionfor use even when play is going on.Hilaire points out that the complex, while principally for cricket,will also be available for other sports, such as football and rugby,and for seminars and training.At the same time as Guilleaume and his men are heading towards theirgoal, another sports stadium to hold 8 000 and serve football andtrack and field is also under going up near the island-nation’s secondtown of Vieux Fort, 40 miles to the south.It is being built and paid for by the Chinese government at a cost ofUS$15 million and its completion date is set for June 2002.The two projects mirror those of the Grenada government that completedtwo similar high-quality sports facilities four years ago and hassince staged One-Day Internationals against Australia, Pakistan andSouth Africa.The question from some quarters in both countries now, as then, isinevitable. How can such a high profile and high cost undertaking bevindicated in small nations with other more pressing needs?Grenada has already seen returns in the annual influx of fans for theinternational matches and the professional cricket, football and trackand field clubs attracted for out-of-season training and practice.St Lucia can readily identify the tie-in with its flourishing tourism.Its Atlantic Racing Challenge (ARC) in yachting and Jazz Festival havebecome internationally recognised annual events. They’re keen to addcricket to the list."The cricket stadium is located not far from the tourism hub of RodneyBay," Hilaire notes. "This is by no means accidental as we’verecognised the important strategic linkages that are growing betweensports and tourism."There is also the public pride that is hard to quantify and theincentive for local sportsmen provided with the advantage of worldclass resources.Although it has placed players on West Indies representative youth and"A" team, St Lucia has never produced a Test cricketer.Its most famous native sons have been Nobel Prize winners, economistSir Arthur Lewis and poet Derek Walcott. Rick Wayne gainedinternational recognition in body building back in the 1970s as MrUniverse.But there has been no cricket star. The hope is that the new stadiumwill help lure the youth to the game that runs a definite second inpopularity to football.And then there is the matter of the 2007 World Cup, to be staged forthe first time in the Caribbean, with its potential bonanza fortourism.The WICB has been charged with staging the events by the InternationalCricket Council (ICC), a relationship much like that between hostcities and the International Olympic Committee (IOC).The ICC, like the IOC, sets out strict guidelines on all aspects ofthe event and St Lucia, and Grenada, have stolen a march on the otherterritories.Established Test grounds like Kensington Oval, Sabina Park, Bourda andthe Antigua Recreation Ground (ARG) will need extensive upgrading ifthey are to meet ICC demands.At the moment, of the older venues, only the well-appointed Queen’sPark Oval in Trinidad has onsite practice facilities, either outdoorsor in, and adequate parking. St Lucia’s plans include both.In its recently released four-year development plan, the BarbadosCricket Association includes provision for construction of an entirelynew stadium at a cost of US$31.8 million.But there is opposition from those sentimentally attached toKensington and, in any case, a start is still to be made.There are hints of something in the pipeline in other territories butnothing more yet – and 2007 is not that far away.For St Lucia, it can’t come soon enough.

The International Cricket Council will not overrule match referee MikeDenness’ decision to fine and impose a suspended ban on Sachin Tendulkar for ball-tampering in the second Test against South Africa in Port Elizabeth.TV evidence showed Tendulkar using a fingernail on the seam of the ball, andDenness, a former England captain, made his decision after a meeting with the Indian player.There has been outrage at the penalty in India, but the ICC’s communications manager Mark Harrison said today: “On the match referee’s judgement there is no right of appeal.”The Indian cricket board have demanded Denness’ replacement as match referee for the final Test in Centurion, but the ICC are playing the situationcautiously.”We’ll certainly be looking at the appeal,” Harrison said. “The Indian board have been requested to outline their position in writing to the ICC. As and when that arrives we’ll deal with it.”There’s no appealing against the penalties by the players or by the homeboard. The judgement is that the match referee has found Tendulkar guilty ofthat offence.”Tendulkar was fined 75% of his match fee and handed a one-match ban, suspended until the end of this year, while five of his team-mates were also punished.The most severe penalty was handed to Virender Sehwag, who was banned for the next Test and fined 75% of his match fee for excessive appealing. Shiv Sunder Das, Harbhajan Singh and Deep Dasgupta were fined the same amount and given suspended single-match bans for the same offence.India captain Sourav Ganguly was given a suspended ban for one Test and two one-day international games for failing to exercise control over his team-mates.

The Standard Bank u/13 Cricket Week started yesterday with fifteen teams from 13 provincial teams battling it out on the cricket fields.STANDARD BANK UNDER 13 USSASA CRICKET WEEK being played in the Durbanand Districts area this week. Boland vs Eastern Province played at Collegians
Eastern Province153 / 8 (K.de Villiers 37, J.Bence 38, K.Matiknca 32, D.Duvenhage 5/19, Bothma 2/15)
Boland:Result: Not available
Border vs Griquas played at Hoy Park
Griquas 158 / 9 (R.Adams 32, C.Jackson 28, N.Dick 4 / 20 )Border 109 / 7 (M.J.Le Marquand 22, Granville 4 / 7)
Result: Griquas won by 33 runs (Match rain affected, calculation done using the Don method)
Easterns vs Zimbabwe played at Kingsmead
Zimbabwe 187 / 9 (K.Meth 32, S.Torr 30, B.Hunt 20, B.Fakude 3/ 22, I.Hlengani 3/25 R.Landberg 2/16)
Easterns 126 / 8 (I.Hlengani 22n.o. R.Higgins 5 / 28, S.Torr 2 / 19)
Result: Zimbabwe won by 35 runs (Match rain affected, calculation done using the Don method)
Free State vs Gauteng played at D.P.H.S. 1
Free State 197 / 9 (B.Cachopa 60, F.Nixon 3 / 39)
Gauteng 166 / 9 (S.Engelbrecht 31, F.Nixon 26, T.Mbanjwa 22 n.o. R.Ferris 3 / 30, L.Modise 3 / 36)
Result: Tie by the Don method of calculation
Natal vs Northern Province played at The Oval
Natal 278 / 4 (J/P.Robert 68, C.Hauptfleisch 56, T.Drummond 37 n.o. D.Mbatha 29. B.Ndlovu 2/ 32)
Northern Province 118 / 7 (H.Allison 39, T.Pretorius 23, J.Logtenberg 3 / 29)
Result: KZN won by 123 runs (Match rain affected, calculation done using the Don method)
Northerns vs South Western Districts played at Crusaders
South Western Districts 141 / 9 (W.Grobler 33, K.Niewoudt 34, G.Rudolph 3 / 16, T.Thema 3 / 35)
Northerns 108 / 8 (T.Temba 32, M.Joubert 40n.o. M.Botha 3 / 32)
Result: South Western Districts won by 4 runs (Match rain affected, calculation done using the Don method)
North West vs Western Province played at Berea Rovers
Western Province 188 / 9 (J.Gierdien 33, S.Dyson 59, B.Barnes 31, A.Kritzinger 26, B.Kumedi 3 / 27, R. van Rensberg 4/32)
North West 50 (M.Jones 5 / 6, Z.Joseph 3 / 15)
Result: Western Province won by 138 runs

The depth of Australian cricket was on display again tonight as opening batsman Jimmy Maher made a well-paced 94 to guide Australia A to victory over South Africa in their day-night limited overs match at Adelaide Oval.It followed Tuesday’s comfortable win over New Zealand in Brisbane, giving the second-string Australian side a clean sweep of its matches against the touring sides.Maher’s innings, which took 120 balls and included eight boundaries, set up tonight’s win, which came with five balls to spare and five wickets in hand.Wicketkeeper Ryan Campbell added the finishing touches, with an unbeaten 20 from 16 balls, which included a six over cover and a four through midwicket fromthe 48th over, bowled by Jacques Kallis.South African captain Shaun Pollock won the toss and elected to bat first in near-40 degree temperatures, but the Proteas’ top order failed badly.Australia A opening bowlers Nathan Bracken and Jason Gillespie both took early wickets and leg spinner Stuart MacGill claimed a wicket with his second ball ofthe match, in the 24th over, to reduce South Africa struggling to 5-79.Bracken finished with 2-28 from eight overs and Gillespie 1-28 from his 10.But a 94-run sixth wicket partnership between Jonty Rhodes (69 from 97 balls) and Pollock (56 from 76 balls) at five per over helped the South Africans to acompetitive total.Australia A captain Darren Lehmann broke the partnership, having Rhodes caught at deep midwicket, then fellow part time left arm spinner Simon Katich took three late wickets as South Africa finished at 9-215 from its 50 overs.Lehmann and Katich finished with 4-33 between them from six unremarkable overs.Australia A lost the early wicket of Greg Blewett (five), but Maher and Katich combined for a 55-run second wicket partnership dominated by the Queenslander.Maher and Lehmann (41 from 57 balls) then put on 72 for the third wicket.Maher’s innings involved one moment of controversy when he survived an appeal for obstructing the field while on 92.The two umpires conferred after he made contact with bowler Makhaya Ntini, who was attempting to gather a ball close to the wicket while the batsmen took asharp single.But it did not alter the course of the match, with Maher out two balls later after skying a ball to mid-off from the same bowler without a run being added.Mike Hussey was unbeaten on 25 from 28 balls and hit the winning boundary through mid-on to complete an unbeaten partnership of 37 from 27 balls withCampbell.”It was a good performance against a quality side. They were going flat-out, we were happy to be able to chase 215 on and up-and-down wicket,” Lehmann said.”Jimmy Maher held the innings together and Hussey and Campbell played really well at the end.”Lehmann also praised the bowling of Bracken and Gillespie and said the fact they were in the A-side rather than the senior Australian side was a testament to thenation’s depth.”Australian cricket is in a really good position, hopefully the number one side can play really well over the next few weeks and keep that roll going,” he said.

A magnificent century by Darren Lehmann led South Australia to a convincing winover New South Wales in the ING Cup cricket match here today.Lehmann pressed his claims for a national one-day berth with 101 runs off just 95 balls to help hand his side a 114-run victory.The Redbacks batted first after being sent in by NSW captain Stuart MacGill and were bowled out for 258 in the last over of the innings.Test paceman Jason Gillespie then took 3-31 from 10 overs to help bowl the Blues out for just 144 with 5.1 overs to spare shortly before he responded to an emergency call-up to the Australian squad.Gillespie was drafted after West Australian quick Brad Williams was ruled out with a broken thumb and Glenn McGrath received a one-match ban for dissent.Lehmann came to the wicket with the Redbacks in trouble at 2-17 and wasn’t dismissed until the score reached 199. He received good support from Ben Johnson (51 from 74 balls), and David Fitzgerald, who played solidly at the top of the order to make 33 from 70.Allrounder Mike Smith chipped in with an unbeaten 30 from 18 balls, which included three sixes.MacGill had the best figures for NSW, taking 5-53 from 6.5 overs after conceding 14 runs from his first over.Stuart Clark and Nathan Bracken were impressive with the new ball taking 1-19 and 2-30 respectively.When it was the Blues’ turn to bat, they didn’t take long to run into trouble, slumping to 7-73 with only left-hander Graeme Rummans holding the innings together with an unbeaten 73.The NSW innings ended with Bracken edging paceman Mark Harrity through to wicketkeeper Graham Manou for nine.Harrity, Johnson and Smith claimed two wickets each for the Redbacks while Paul Wilson took one.Lehmann was delighted with the performance, saying it was the best so far this season for his side.”We haven’t batted, bowled and fielded better than that in the one day competition this season,” he said.”It was very pleasing and I just hope we can keep it going after the momentum we’ve built here”.MacGill was blunt in his assessment of the Blues’ effort.”It was embarrassing, really, we have no excuse for that performance,” he said.”The difference between the sides was the big partnership between Darren (Lehmann) and Ben Johnson that set up the South Australian innings.”As far as our batting goes it was simply not good enough.”There was nothing wrong with the wicket, in fact we’d like to play all our matches on a wicket as good as that one.”

A three-dayer on a batting paradise was the perfect recipe for a draw. So it came as no surprise when Zimbabwe and Indian Board President’s XI trooped off after sharing honours on the final day of the lung-opener in Vijayawada.Zimbabwe, who began the day on 292 for six, had to suffer the early mortification of seeing their star batsman Andy Flower miss a ton. Flower, who had batted beautifully on Saturday, was on 94 when he edged a delivery from off-spinner Sarandeep Singh into the waiting hands of silly-point. The premier Zimbabwean batsman had though done enough to serve notice of a return to top form after an uncharacteristically lean run in Sri Lanka recently.Flower’s dismissal led to the unfolding of the most riveting period of the match. Haryana leg-spinner Amit Mishra might have failed to gain a berth in the Indian team for the upcoming series, but if he continues to bowl as he did on Sunday the Indian selectors would not be able to deny him for long.His leg-spin was refreshingly classical, down even to the occasional capriciousness of his bowling. Raymond Price, who replaced Flower, was Mishra’s first victim on the day. The latter played 18 balls without scoring, before tapping a low full toss back into the bowler’s hands.Mishra’s next wicket came off a beautiful delivery. Alistair Campbell, who had scratched around for 25 runs, thought he had a ball that pitched well outside his off-stump covered, but to his consternation it broke back from the rough to knock down his middle stump.Last man Brighton Watambwa thrashed around during the briefest of stays before scooping Mishra into the hands of Sarandeep in the covers. The Haryana leggie’s figures of six for 95 were particularly laudable as they came on a wicket with little life in it.With less than a day’s play remaining, the 21-run lead that Board President’s XI eked out did not mean much. The home team captain Rahul Dravid decided to give first innings not out batsmen Abhijit Kale and Pravanjan Mullick a chance to impress the small gathering.The duo almost immediately proceeded to do so. With the visiting fast bowlers pitching short, their job was made much easier. Cuts and pulls flowed from the bat as the score moved along at a handsome pace. The final ball of the eleventh over provided Zimbabwe a chance to claim Kale but Campbell at second slip muffed a straightforward catch.Kale and Mullick, an impressive batsman with a penchant for the horizontal bat shots, reached the mid-forties at almost the same time. But once Kale brought up his fifty, he changed gears. Left-arm spinner Raymond Price and part-timer Trevor Gripper began to disappear to all parts of the ground. The Mumbai batsman, who has been a prolific run-getter in the Indian domestic circuit, came a long way down the track while carting the spinners. Price, who has come to India as a specialist spinner, seemed clueless in the face of such relentlessly aggressive attack. He surely would have to show a quantum improvement as a bowler if he is escape a similar mauling from the more illustrious Indian stars in the Tests.Zimbabwe finally had to turn to medium-pacer, Travis Friend to earn them their only wicket in the Board President’s XI second innings. Bowling with an old ball that was swinging appreciably, Friend managed to break through Kale’s defences, uprooting his leg stump and leaving the latter stranded on 90.After that there was little to play for and the two captains decided to call off the game after two more overs had been bowled.Zimbabwe, who will now play their first Test in Nagpur from February 21-25, have to quickly get their act together. Their bowling was very ragged in this match and on the dead Indian wickets this would make them easy meat for the powerful Indian batting line-up. The batsmen too will have to put up a much-improved display if they are to shake-off the tag of being wholly reliant on Andy Flower.

PERTH, Dec 17 AAP – He looks like a pirate and loves nothing better than plundering bowling attacks with his unique brand of swash-buckling cricket.The dashing Ryan Campbell is set for his second taste of international one-day cricket when the Australian team is named tomorrow for Sunday’s day-night match against Sri Lanka at the WACA ground.The 30-year-old wicketkeeper-batsman is tipped to again replace West Australian team-mate Adam Gilchrist who is sitting out the match with a slight groin strain and knee soreness.If so it will be his second international one-day after he scored 38 from 52 balls in a 23-run loss to New Zealand at the SCG last season when filling in for Gilchrist.While Campbell is no Gilchrist, Gabba fans can attest to the right-hander’s entertainment value after his 42 from 28 balls in Australia A’s win over Sri Lanka on Saturday.Such was the audacity of Campbell’s two flick shots over the Sri Lankan keeper that viewers could have been excused for thinking they had stumbled upon a game of backyard cricket.His radical style has seemed even more appropriate this summer with his wild facial hair.Campbell grew up in the goldfields city of Kalgoorlie where he developed a fossicker’s inventive style.But former WA team-mate Simon Katich was one person who was hardly surprised at Campbell’s improvisation last weekend after spending the last six summers playing together.Katich did have reservations about Campbell’s current look.”He’s sporting a new-look mullet and he has had fair bit of growth happening, he’s looking a bit eccentric actually,” Katich said.But the current NSW player said any comparison with the destructive play of Gilchrist was difficult.”It is hard to compare anyone with Gilly, but in terms of a guy who can play some strokes, Campbo’s right up there,” Katich said.He put Campbell’s unconventional scoring ways to having a superb eye.”He picks up the ball pretty early and he plays shots other blokes probably wouldn’t,” he said.”He can pick up fours and sixes with shots that aren’t conventional but are totally effective.”In a recent four-day match against Victoria, Campbell when berserk mid-innings with 10 fours in 18 deliveries before being lowered by a ball which struck him in the groin.He dropped to his knees and crawled along like a desperate man searching for water in the desert.He was out only five runs later for 75.”Campbo can change the tempo of a game, because he scores so quickly he also takes the pressure off the batsman at the other end,” Katich said.Whatever happens for Campbell this weekend, be assured of one thing, when he is at the crease tune in, because it will not be dull.